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January Labor

NEW MEXICO-ARIZONA: There were 19,000 hired workers on farms and ranches in New Mexico and Arizona during the week of January 9th - 15th, 2005, down 17% from October. Average hours worked increased to 45.2 hours, down up 2.7% from October and slightly more than January 2004. Field worker wage rates increased 26 cents from last January to $7.70 per hour, while livestock workers rose 43 cents to $8.41 per hour. Overall, wage rates for all hired agricultural workers improved to $8.61 an hour, up 24 cents compared to this time last year.

UNITED STATES: There were 749,000 hired workers on the Nation's farms and ranches during the week of January 9-15,2005, down 12 percent from a year ago. Of these hired workers, 574,000 workers were hired directly by farm operators. Agricultural service employees on farms and ranches made up the remaining 175,000 workers. Farm operators paid their hired workers an average wage of $9.81 per hour during the January 2005 reference week, up 40 cents from a year earlier. Field workers received an average of $8.73 per hour, up 34 cents from last January, while livestock workers earned $9.19 per hour compared with $8.83 a year earlier. The field and livestock worker combined wage rate, at $8.91 per hour, was up 36 cents from last year. The number of hours worked averaged 36.8 hours for hired workers during the survey week, down 3 percent from a year ago.
    

Workers on Farms, Hours worked Per Week, and Wage Rates for All Hired Workers,
Selected Regions and U.S., January 04-05 1/
Mountain II 2/ Mountain III 3/ Southern Plains 4/ United States 5/
Jan
11-17
2004 		Oct
10-16
2004 		Jan
9-15
2005 		Jan
11-17
2004 		Oct
10-16
2004 		Jan
9-15
2005 		Jan
11-17
2004 		Oct
10-16
2004 		Jan
9-15
2005 		Jan
11-17
2004 		Oct
10-16
2004 		Jan
9-15
2005
-----------------------------------------Thousands----------------------------------------------------------
Workers on Farms
All Hired Workers 17 19 17 16 23 19 60 44 50 662 851 574
-----------------------------------------------Hours Per Week-----------------------------------------------------
Hours Worked
All Hired Workers 39.7 41.6 43.4 44.9 44.0 45.2 34.0 40.3 37.0 38.1 40.5 36.8
--------------------------------------------Dollars Per Hours----------------------------------------------------
Wages By Work
Type
Field 8.75 8.32 7.37 7.44 7.03 7.70 7.46 8.44 8.01 8.39 *8.62 8.73
Livestock 8.81 8.95 9.65 7.98 8.04 8.41 7.97 8.68 9.35 8.83 8.91 9.19
Field & Livestock 8.80 8.56 8.83 7.69 7.36 8.02 7.73 8.53 8.75 8.55 *8.69 8.91
All Workers 9.80 9.40 9.93 8.37 7.75 8.61 8.43 9.34 9.56 9.41 *9.32 9.81
1/ Excludes agricultural service workers. 2/ Mountain Region II consists of CO, NV & UT. 3/ Mountain Region III consists
of AZ & NM. 4/ Southern Plains region consists of OK & TX. 5/ Excludes AK. *Revised.


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